Christine Kahema

Founder & Lead Consultant, Alpha Tax & Business Advisory Services Ltd

Christine is a Director at Alpha Tax and Business Advisory Services Limited and has over 18 years of tax & business advisory experience. She works with organizations to implement and execute corporate tax strategies for direct and indirect taxes; she assists Corporates and Industry Associations in preparing technical papers for Government engagements and lobby work. She also works with companies and SMEs to enhance tax compliance, tax planning & execution.

She provides tax advisory services with respect to mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring and Transfer Pricing. She represents companies at the Tax Tribunals, Treasury, Parliamentary Committees and Revenue Authorities. As a member of the Public and Tax Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Tax Committee of the Law Society of Kenya, she works closely with stakeholders in review of Tax Legislation aimed at shaping future Tax Laws.

Christine worked as a Tax Manager at Coca- Cola Central East and West Africa (CEWA) for the East, Central and West African Markets for 9 years. Before CEWA, she worked as a Tax Manager at KPMG for 8 years.

She holds a degree in Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi and is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya (CPA-K) and also a Certified Public Secretary (CPS). She has an MBA for Executives from Strathmore Business School. She is an accredited trainer and renders tax and business training to clients. She also lectures on a part time basis at Strathmore University. She is currently pursuing a PHD in Commercial Law – Taxation at the University of Cape-Town.